the hundredletter thunderwords of finnegans wake

by J C W

by Jorn Barger Feb 2000

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there are ten thunders in the wake each is a cryptogram or codified explanation of the thundering and reverberating consequences of the major technological changes in all human history when a tribal man hears thunder he says what did he say that time as automatically as we say gesundheit marshall mcluhan it took months of concentrated effort to begin to winkle out the thousands of words in the thunders now several of them have yielded thirty or more pages of words each word denoting or alluding to a theme in the episode or an associated technology prior to our discovery of the thunders and their significance marshall mcluhan looked up to joyce as a writer and artist of encyclopedic wisdom and eloquence unparalleled in our time after he recognized in joyce the prescient explorer one who used patterns of linguistic energy to discern the patterns of culture and society and technology eric mcluhan [cite] [amazon] fw003 thunder bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk fw023 thunder perkodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurthrumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun fw044 clap klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrottygraddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot fw090 whore bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach fw113 thingcrooklyexineverypasturesixdixlikencehimaroundhersthemaggerbykinkinkankanwithdownmindlookingated fw257 shut the door lukkedoerendunandurraskewdylooshoofermoyportertooryzooysphalnabortansporthaokansakroidverjkapakkapuk fw314 bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup fw332 pappappapparrassannuaragheallachnatullaghmonganmacmacmacwhackfalltherdebblenonthedubblandaddydoodled fw414 cough husstenhasstencaffincoffintussemtossemdamandamnacosaghcusaghhobixhatouxpeswchbechoscashlcarcarcaract fw424 norse gods ullhodturdenweirmudgaardgringnirurdrmolnirfenrirlukkilokkibaugimandodrrerinsurtkrinmgernrackinarockar the tenth and last has 101 letters making 1001 letters in all